National Programme on use of Space Technology for Agriculture

TNPSC Current Affairs - December 2017 by TNPSC Guru 

The new programme called National Programme on use of Space Technology for Agriculture (NPSTA) is proposed by Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare for using space and Geospatial tools for Mapping, Monitoring and Management of Agriculture.

This proposed programme contains Crop Assessment & Monitoring; Agricultural Resources Management; Disaster Monitoring and Mitigation and Satellite Communication and Navigation Applications.

These programme will subsume the current programmes like

FASAL (Forecasting Agricultural output using Space, Agro-meteorology and Land based observations),,

NADAMS(National Agricultural Drought Assessment and Monitoring System),

CHAMAN (Coordinated programme on Horticulture Assessment and Management using geo informatics) ,

KISAN(C(K)rop Insurance using Space technology And geoiNformatics) and Crop intensification planning.